EPP - What's that you say?

Imagine if each day you went to school, you had to sit through lessons focused on skills or information that you had already obtained. What would you do? Zone out? Daydream? Become frustrated and possibly cynical? Basically, you would disengage from your classroom. That's more or less what happens when we ask gifted students to sit through classes that are far below their academic or intellectual level.

EPP -- also know as the Extended Projects Program - is offered to students from the third grade on in Worthington. If the levy does not pass, these classes will be eliminated from elementary grades.

All students deserve to be challenged at a level that is appropriate. Elementary school children, in particular, need to know that school is a place where they will be appropriately challenged so that they see the value in applying themselves each and every day. So that they, in fact, love school and can develop their gifts appropriately.

From the report, The Support Worthington’s Extended Projects Program (SWEPP) Position Paper on A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students

Educating students involves offering differentiated and often individualized educational opportunities, resources, and encouragement. EPP and AP courses are well-established means of educating gifted students. Gifted students with the capability and motivation to success in placements beyond traditional age/grade parameters should be offered such opportunities.